First Maureen Dowd and now Gloria Borger telling Obama he needs lead. Then Mark Halperin calling him a “dick” and the week isn’t even over! Obama is having a bad week.

To me, Obama’s behavior is synonymous with voting “present”. He is in the “room” so to speak but doesn’t want to get his hands dirty by digging in and finding solutions to all that is happening under his watch.

Bush smirked at the Dems for eight years and did whatever the well he wanted. Now we’ve got Eric Cantor walking out of budget negotiations because the President dared to mention the rather obvious fact that we’re gonna need more revenue. I say grow a pair and roll right over those heartless corporate suckups.

Bottom-line is both sides have to deal, and this President is playing to his childish base that don’t want to cut anything. But you can choose to believe that it’s all the Evil Republicans. I can’t believe that they wouldn’t compromise somewhere, if Obama was actually willing to do something besides talk.

Debt ceiling tactics: The only Democrat actually able to say what the Democrats will end up accepting is the President. He wasn’t in the room and didn’t want to be in the room. At some point the Republicans said, IMO, what the hell is he willing to accept or get his ass in here so he can tell us or we’re walking out. Obama, in his wisdom, said, I ain’t coming, I ain’t letting anybody know what and where i want to end up, so, the Republicans walked.

So, no problem from me that they walked. At some point more than those of us who follow Obama closely are going to figure out that there has not been a budget presented and passed for the last two years from his family of Democrats. Obama’s budget was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 97-0 and that he is truly someone who DOES NOT know how to be a leader in any way, shape or form.

The NY Times will report tomorrow that the prosecution’s case against Dominque Strauss-Kahn is in serious trouble. Reportedly, the woman making the accusations of sexual assault was taped discussing the financial benefits of pursuing the charges.

There’s also evidence that she lied on her asylum application and also that there have been multiple cash deposits into her checking account totaling more than $100,000 over the past several years. Read: drug laundering. Allegedly.

Prosecutors now believe little of what she claims to have happened with Strauss-Kahn.

^Just because someone lied on her asylum application and questionable cash deposits doesn’t mean she should be denied justice. Always blame the victim.
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Despite what people think of the royals, they’re probably the best stimulus package for the tourism industry at least for us and the UK. A woman drove all the way from Austin, TX to Ottawa just to see the royal couple. More Americans should do that.
I want to see the Duke and Duchess in cowboy hats, plaid shirts and jeans a week from now. I find that entertaining for some reason.